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Google's Explainer-in-Chief Can't Explain Apple — As Google Inc. battles rivals ranging from Apple Inc. to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's peacemaker and explainer-in-chief. — Google's former CEO and current executive chairman met …
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat — Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes) — Marko Ahtisaari, Executive VP of Design, Nokia, has unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 device: the Nokia Lumia 620. The product design chief was speaking at the LeWeb conference taking place this week in Paris.| Neil McAllister / The Register: |
Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers — Top app earners carve up $60m pie — Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.
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| Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog: |
The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 — Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon brings one of its flagship Kindle features, X-Ray for books, to its iOS app — One of Amazon's flagship features, X-Ray for Books, has finally arrived in its iOS version. Thsi is enormous as it's one of the main reasons I love reading books on my Kindle and the Kindle Fire so much better than my iPad.| Craig Lloyd / SlashGear: |
Verizon to start targeted advertising this week, will be optional — If you're a customer of Verizon's, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for an email, text message, or notification mentioning the carrier's new “Verizon Selects” program. In exchange for sharing your data usage …
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps — When is a word game for the iPhone not just entertainment but an experiment into the future of how mobile apps work? When it's a game made by mobile developer and designer Loren Brichter. — At 28, he's already left quite a stamp on mobile interfaces …
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| Glyn Moody / Techdirt: |
ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Standard Behind Closed Doors, Ignores Huge Privacy Implications — Techdirt has run a number of articles about the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) currently taking place in Dubai. One of the concerns is that decisions taken …
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| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
Your AT&T Bill Will Soon Be a Video — Deciphering wireless bills requires a degree of patience only slightly lower than interpreting the Constitution, so we're very happy to see AT&T making theirs a lot more human-friendly. Starting today, AT&T is explaining your monthly costs with a simple video.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nokia announces the Lumia 920T with China Mobile, available for $739 before end of 2012 — Nokia has announced that its Lumia 920T smartphone is coming to China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, and it will launch before the end of the year for 4599 RMB ($739 - off contract) with a choice of black, white, yellow and red.
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| Jake Smith / 9to5Google: |
Google adds horizontal carousel for web based iPad searches about local places — Google updated its web experience for U.S. iPad users who search for local places, such as bars and restaurants, on Google Search. The Mountain View-based company called the new feature a “horizontal carousel” …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More — Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Philips, LG Electronics, 4 others fined $1.92 billion for EU cartel — (Reuters) - Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung SDI and three other firms were fined a record 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday for fixing prices of TV cathode-ray tubes in two cartels lasting nearly a decade.| Travis Kalanick / Uber Blog: |
DC Council Clears Path for Uber's Future — Uber Faithful - — Today is a *really* big day for Uber. REALLY BIG. One which will keep Uber rolling in the nation's capital for years to come, with the full support of city officials. Today the DC Council unanimously passed a legislative framework for …
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Reward Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth — The founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there's something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they're hardly alone.
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Upgrade to iWork iOS apps means better compatibility with Word, iWork for Mac — Apple says its iWork productivity apps for iOS should play better with the Mac version of the apps and with Microsoft Office, thanks to a key update to the apps on Tuesday. Easy compatibility between these apps …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook to replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th — Facebook will replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100, the basket of companies that determine the movement of the NASDAQ index. — The move is affirmation of Facebook's status in the technology space …
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CNET, Focus on Funds, NASDAQ.com, TechCrunch and Softpedia News
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
PeopleBrowsr Claims “Twitter Changed Position On Eve Of Discovery” Over Federal Jurisdiction Request — Tonight, PeopleBrowsr, the company that filed a restraining order against Twitter to keep a hold of its firehose of data after Twitter decided to end the deal it had in place with them, came out to discuss the latest in its case.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung promotes son and heir closer to top job — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co pushed the anointed heir of the company Chairman closer to the top job on Wednesday as the it cemented a global lead in smartphones with a stock price that is close to record highs.
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| Charles Mead / Bloomberg: |
Intel Raises $6 Billion in Bond Sale to Buy Back Stock — Intel Corp. (INTC) sold $6 billion of bonds in the largest dollar-denominated sale since Abbott Laboratories raised $14.7 billion on Nov. 5, Bloomberg data show. — The offering, which topped the company's previous record …
| Casey Chan / Gizmodo: |
This Hilarious Video Shows Everything That's Annoying About Instagram — Because we're all egomaniacs who like to moonlight as artistic geniuses and because damn near everybody uses Instagram, the filtered photo sharing social network has devolved into a thumb scrolling exercise …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP announces the EliteBook Revolve, a Windows 8 convertible for the business crowd (video) — See that laptop up there? Basically, HP has announced something like that every year for we don't even know how long. It's always a convertible PC of the traditional sort, one with a fixed screen …
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